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Elisa Ferreira

Elisa Ferreira GCC
Ferreira in 2023
European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2019
President	Ursula von der Leyen
Preceded by	Corina Crețu (as Commissioner for Regional Policy)
Member of the European Parliament for Portugal
In office 1 July 2004 – 19 June 2016
Succeeded by	Manuel António dos Santos
Minister of Planning
In office 25 October 1999 – 6 April 2002
Prime Minister	António Guterres
Preceded by	João Cravinho
Succeeded by	Pedro Marques
Minister of the Environment
In office 28 October 1995 – 25 October 1999
Prime Minister	António Guterres
Preceded by	Teresa Patrício Gouveia
Succeeded by	José Sócrates
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 4 April 2002 – 30 June 2004
Constituency	Braga
Personal details
Born	Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira (1955-10-17) 17 October 1955 (age 68) Porto, Portugal
Political party	Socialist Party
Other political affiliations	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Party of European Socialists
Education	University of Porto

Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira, GCC (born 17 October 1955) is a Portuguese politician and economist who has been serving as European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in the administrationofPresident Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. She previously served as vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal from 2016 until 2019.^[1] She was as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016.^[2] In 2019, she was selected by Portugal to serve as a European Commissioner. Previously, she was in charge of the Ministries of Environment (1995-1999) and Public Works (1999-2001) during the governments of António Guterres.

Ferreira served as Minister of Environment (1995–1999) and as Minister for Planning (1999–2001) in the governmentofAntónio Guterres.

Ferreira was a Member of the European Parliament from the 2004 European election until her resignation in 2016. Throughout her time in parliament, she served as a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, she drafted the committee's own-initiative report on closer coordination of economic policies, which calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to be granted powers to monitor “financial stability in the euro-area” and to be involved “in EU-wide macroprudential supervision of systematically important financial institutions.”^[3] She was also in charge of the parliament's report on the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure in 2011^[4] and led the parliament's work on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in 2013.^[5]

From 2004 to 2014, Ferreira was a member of the parliament's delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In 2015, she joined the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect.

In 2012, Ferreira was part of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) expert “alternative troika” sent to Greece to assess what measures can be taken to spur job growth.^[6]

In addition to her committee assignments, Ferreira was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Long Term Investment and Reindustrialisation.^[7] She also represented the Parliament at the 2007 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceinBali^[8] and the 2008 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceinPoznań.^[9]

In June 2016, Elisa Ferreira resigned from the European Parliament after she was nominated by the Portuguese Government to join the board of directors of the Bank of Portugal.^[10] She was replaced by Manuel dos Santos.

On 27 August 2019 Prime-Minister António Costa announced that Ferreira had been proposed as the Portuguese commissionerinUrsula von der Leyen's European Commission, to take office on 1 November 2019,^[11] taking the portfolio of Cohesion and Reforms.^[12] She became the first Portuguese woman to be put forward as commissioner.^[13]

• Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Member of the Administrative Board (1989–1992)
• Associação Industrial Portuense, Executive Vice-President (1992–1994)
• Comissão de Coordenação da Região Norte, Vice-President (1988–1992)

• Personal profile of Elisa Ferreira in the European Parliament's database of members